Russian MD: Russian forces repel attack with rocket launchers on the Hmeimim base

Moscow (ST): The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that its forces repelled an attack with rocket launchers on the Hmeimim base in Latakia countryside.

The deputy director of the Russian Coordination Center in Hmeimim, Marine Major General Vyacheslav Sitnik, said in a statement that the Russian air defense forces responded to an attack on the Hmeimim air base using long-range missile launchers indicating that the monitor   determined that the bombing was carried out from areas where terrorist organizations spread in the de-escalation region in Idleb.

The Russian military official stated that the attack did not result in casualties or material damage, and that the Hmeimim base was operating normally.

Over the past months, the anti-aircraft missiles thwarted dozens of attack attempts by terrorist groups  on the safe areas and villages in Lattakia countryside and Hmeimim base by means of drones carrying bombs from their area of deployment in Idleb and Latakia countryside.

K.Q.